Puts Your Brand Out Front

Divides and Conquers Your Fundraising Problems

An API Just Itching to Be Used

How it Works

Audience Engine is a new open-source suite ofcommunity-building, fundraising and publishing tools.

Publishers use their own content to build community,and then marshal that community to keep themselves up and running.

It’s a new model for independent media sustainability in the digital age.

Increase your traffic

Engage with your audience

Crowdfund around your content

Survive and thrive in the digital age

Flexible Options

A ONE-STOP REVENUE GENERATION SHOP

We offer a hosted platform for radio stations, news websites, digital libraries, videomakers, galleries, bands and artists who want to use their content to build and engage their audience, and thereby raise enough money to survive and thrive.

MODULAR TOOLS TO PLUG RIGHT IN

There’s no need to abandon your existing platform! Our a-la-carte selection of cross-platform, network agnostic tools will work in conjunction with your existing site, and if you have an IT brainiac on the premises, the tools are free to install, use and customize!

Our Services

Audience Engine’s open-source code is free to use, and we also offer affordable packages to get you up and running faster.

Hosting solutions

Perfect for organizations lacking a full-time IT staff.

Customization

We’ll help build out our tools to suit your unique needs.

Implementation assistance & Training

We’ll get you up and running with Audience Engine in no time.

Donation administration

Manage and grow online donations (includes a small transaction fee).

About

Audience Engine was created by Public Benefit Corporation

to disseminate open-source tools and strategies for media organizations and libraries worldwide.

is a subsidiary of (aka Auricle Communications), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation.

MEET OUR TEAM

WFMU | Congera

Audience Engine is developed and operated by Congera Public Benefit Corporation, a for-profit C-corporation subsidiary of the 501(c)3 non-profit Auricle Communications, which owns and operates public radio station WFMU and the Free Music Archive website.

Station Manager Ken Freedman has been at WFMU’s helm since 1985, and is responsible for bringing the station online in 1997. Joined by Assistant General Manager Liz Berg in 2005, the team have developed the station’s extensive and massively successful online presence, which raises over 70% of WFMU’s annual budget.

By pairing online content, real-time playlist information, social media, and community interaction tools directly with crowdfunding campaigns, WFMU has not only built a positive and intelligent online community, but also a sustainable model that can be adopted by other organizations.

Ken and Liz combined the online tools they’ve developed with WFMU’s unique audience engagement strategy in Audience Engine, and can’t wait to help other media organizations build community online.

“… we believe that Audience Engine can help tie together some of the most important functions of today’s news organizations – engagement, fundraising, and more – in ways that more general platforms can’t.”– The Local News Lab

“… an online platform designed to help public media organizations raise money and engage communities.”– Current

“Audience Engine’s goal is no less than changing how media outlets from radio stations to magazines interact with, and keep, their audiences. Oh, and make money.”– Billboard

“Mynte provides secure logins and user profiles for websites and contains pledge-drive software that allows users to monitor pledges for specific programs.”– Current

“… community based radio stations have to start thinking about online platforms that don’t effectively abandon discussion and networking to Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, or LinkedIn, and the rest of the usual suspects… once your listeners and/or website readers are off to Twitter/Facebook-land, they’re all but gone. They’re not commenting on your podcast or stream or blog post in your house. They’re far far away, helping Mark Zuckerberg bring in that advertisement and audience data cash.”– Radio Survivor

Contact Us

Interested in using the Audience Engine or investing in the project? Drop us a line!